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Total number of records: 28

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Brotherton Collection28
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse28

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Hadassas28
Pulter, Lady Hester28

Title: My love is fair

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Lightly satirical address to a man, Philanthropas, urging him to make haste and woo his beloved if her beauty and virtues really do exceed those of the gods

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Title: On the same [i.e. the death of my deare and lovely daughter JP]

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Elegiac lament for the death of a daughter, Jane Pulter, in which the writer asks not to be reminded of her virtues and beauty; with some revisions.

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem on the love and light of God

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem complaining of the withdrawal of God's love from her and asking to be readmitted to his grace

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Title: Upon the death of my deare and lovely daughter JP [with added note: Jane Pulter, baptized May 1 1625, buried Oct 8 1645, aet. 20].

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 1645 ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Elegiac lament for the death of a daughter, Jane Pulter; with some revisions

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 165- or 166- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Advising parents to love their children equally, using various examples to support her case. One of a series of emblem poems, unillustrated.

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 165- or 166- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Advising women to remain chaste and resist amorous advances, since this resistance will provoke greater love. One of a series of emblem poems, unillustrated.

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 165- or 166- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: On poor husbands, contrasting them unfavourably with marmots which are supposedly more loving. Marginal note on source in Pliny. One of a series of emblem poems, unillustrated.

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 165- or 166- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: On the need for unity to accomplish great achievements such as grand buildings, giving examples of co-operation between animals. One of a series of emblem poems, unillustrated.

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Title: The circle

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem in praise of the light of the morning star Astraea

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Title: Aurora

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: In praise of Aurora, describing the desire of Phoebus (Apollo) for her, and ending with a premonition of death

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Title: Aurora

Author: Pulter, Lady Hester

Attribution: Hadassas

Date(s): 164- or 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 32

Contents: Religious poem wishing for the light of dawn (Aurora) and thus the bliss of heaven, and expressing fear of the chaos associated with night

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